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Morning Coffee
Department of promotional-material-used-to-be-so-much-cooler: The Frolie Grasshopper Circus. Nova Scotian living wall! Say what you will, but I quite enjoy whimsical street art (like this). Asparagus is trying to destroy japan. (The best thing here is the gawker sideline “more about vegetables.”)…
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The Loneliest Thing on Earth
Miguel Syjuco’s novel, Ilustrado won the Man Asian Literary Prize while still in manuscript. A Filipino American reviewer considers the fate of Filipino writing in the American literary world.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/24-5/30
This week, Monday gets more tolerable with cocktails and local art at Make My Monday, Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher takes over El Rio, demystify the history of the Wiggle with ThinkWalk, and celebrate National Masturbation Month at the San…
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“A Curiously Obsessive First Novel”
“On its face, the novel’s title suggests both communal and individual aspects of identity. What defines Paul? If blood, he’s half Samoan, half white. If experience, his years in prison are counter-balanced by those spent at an elite all-boys’ Catholic…
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MetaFilter to the Rescue
“The message thread reads like the play-by-play from an alternate reality game, wherein complete strangers work together to solve a complex mystery. But the drama that played out on MetaFilter this week was no game. If not for the intrepid…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #37
SEEING EYE DOGS ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing seeing eye dogs.
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Lethem Is Leaving NYC
“In a way, I need to be dreaming my way back here. The longing and exile are part of my relationship to writing about this place.” Jonathan Lethem is leaving New York City for California, “where he will become the…
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“‘I know what kind of asshole I am and it’s a different kind of asshole than they think I am.’”
“I know it probably sounds disingenuous saying this and obviously the various ways that I’ve been in public and whether its been exalted or humiliated have enabled me to make a living but that’s really all its done. That shouldn’t…
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Good News
As BookExpo America launches “independent booksellers are enjoying a pleasant surprise: Membership is up.” To be fair, the increase is small (“from 1,401 a year ago to 1,410”), but the teensy positive bump is “a deluge in comparison to the…
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The Man in the Crowd
John Buckland Wright’s illustrations for Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales (Halcyon Press, 1932, in an edition of 175):
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #34
Doug, I’m sweating and having trouble breathing. A what? Don’t be so melodramatic. If anything it’s a Big Mac attack. Be a pal and go get me the cure, yeah? And a strawberry shake while you’re at it. More.